Your Favourite Locomotive or Train

[ben10ben]

Nick,
There are 5 A4s left. In addition to the two you named, there's the Dwight D. Eisenhower preserved here in the United States, and one other one whose name escapes my mind at the moment. Glad to meet another enthusiast.

[Anonymous]

Hey Ya'll

I suspected that you would think that. But, If you want to post your favourite toy train(s), be my geust.

Anyway, for those of you who don't know what the gresley A3s and A4s are, They were british locomotive designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for the Great Northern Railway(Only A3's) and afetr it's demise London North Eastern took that over as LNER and had gresley A3s and A4s.

The only surviving A3 is the "Flying Scotsman", that reached over 100 miles per hour in the 1920s or 30s. They man who owned it had gone Bankrupt and it was put up for auction and won by the National Railroad Meuseum in York, England.

The only A4s are the "Mallard" (preserved in it's blue LNER paint and lettering) that went over 120 mph in the 1930s, the "Sir Nigel Gresley"(Also in LNER Blue like the Mallard) that was named after the designer, and the Union of South Africa (Preserved in it's British Railways Green, which was formed after Nationalissation in England, made up of London North Eastern Railway (LNER),The Great Western Railway (GWR), the London, Midland and Scottich Railway (LMS), and the Southern Railway (SR).)

Nick

[Anonymous]

Got to be the N&W "A," followed closely by the "J."

[3railguy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by locomotive10

Hey Ya'll
By favourite locomotive or train, I meant rel trains. Not 0 gauge models. Sorry.
By the way, I like the Gresleys too. They are attractive.
Nick

You never mentioned real trains in your post. This is the toy train forum, not the Trains - Railroad forum so we assumed toy trains. My favorite real engine is an SP SD-40t-2 Tunnel motor.

[Anonymous]

Hey Ya'll

By favourite locomotive or train, I meant rel trains. Not 0 gauge models. Sorry.
By the way, I like the Gresleys too. They are attractive.

Nick

[Anonymous]

My favorite locomotive is my GG-1 (or any GG-1 since it's such a nice looking engine) it pulls a nice long string of cars and is on the tracks most of the time.

My favorite train is a string of 6464 series box cars pulled by my GG-1

Ben
(I really like the GG-1)

[Anonymous]

The new MTH Premier N&W J class 4-8-4 no. 611. Even though the drive rods are way to dark. (The N&W J is my favorite American Loco) Marklin's Trans Europe Express VT11.5 and their all metal Rheingold express train set. are tied for my favorite European.

[Anonymous]

Too many to list all, but the new scale GS-2 from lionel, the scale Erie triplex, the Erie 0-8-8-0, from MTH and of course my postwar 2344 ABA NYC F-3s are just a few i really like to run.

Dave

[3railguy]

For me, it's a toss up between a postwar Lionel 2245 Texas Special F3 and a 2331 Virginian Trainmaster.

[tjsprague]

My favorite "train", my Lionel 1938 set #190W! A swmooth-as-silk 226 diecast steamer and tender pulling 3 Blue Comet passenger cars. Diecast + tinplate= a beautiful train coming around the bend.

My favorite Locomotive ( you did ask about both) I have to agree with the 2026. I have an early one with the nickle drivers. No matter what else catches my fancy, '49 2332 GG1 or new Lionmaster Hudson, I keep coming back to the 2026. And now that someone's making smoke pills again time to lube it up and get it working again![:D]

[ben10ben]

I like the British Gresley-designed A3 and A4 Pacifics, which are possibly two of the best engineered steam locomotives of all time. One of the 5 surviving A4s, in fact, holds the official world steam speed record of 126 MPH.

My favorite diesel is the FM H-24-66.

And, finally, my favorite model is my Lionel 681, because mainly of the work that I did that turned it from an under the table piece to a very presentable piece that I'm proud to show off even when not running[:)]. It's also a great looking and running engine.

[cnw1995]

My favorite real railroad is the Chicago and North Western. My favorite O engine is probably my pre-war 248 and pullman and obs car, followed closely by my pre-war 2-4-2 #1684. with its litho gon 1677, Shell tanker 1680, 805 boxcar and 1682 caboose. My favorite real engine is the IRM's Frisco 1530

[daan]

My favourite is my 2353 F3. Since I knew that they had been made in such a "big" scale I wanted to have one. Last spring I saw one on an internetpage of a german Lego-seller, and I bought it. This was the start of my 0-gauge adventure..
The second best is the early type 2026, with puffing smoke. I love the technique used to make the steamer puff and the very heavy diecast boogie on the back.
My third best is a K-line MP-15, imported from USA. I like that one because it matches perfectly with Lionel diesels and is in the same level of detail. Besides that the electronic reversing unit is great.
My other engines, a 2037, a GP9 from Lionel and an S2 from K-line are all nice machines too, but they all have some negatives.. The 2037 has a worn e-unit and drives only forward, besides that the detail doesn't match the 2026 by far.
The GP9 is one without magnetraction but uses rubber on the wheels, that's the only neg, but a big one.. The S2 is converted to much stronger motors and pulls out the mp15, but also lacks an e-unit.
The S2 will get a maerklin e-unit with forward/reverse only as a try-out.

[palallin]

My favorite roads are the Frisco, the MoPac, and the T & P. I intend to have a complete collection of cataloged Lionel Modern Era equipment from these three roads, and I'm about 85% there in terms of pieces, maybe 75% there in terms of value (I need some of the big ticket items, like the T & P Mountain, one piece but big bucks).

My favorite locomotive is a little more complicated. The favorite loco that I actually possess is my 'bashed MoPac Berkshire (an MPC-era [1985] Southern Mike with details added/modified to represent a MoPac 1121-class Berkshire). My favorite O loco is a toss up between the T & P Mountain and the Frisco Mike. My favorite prototype locomotive is the Frisco 1500-class Mountains. My favorite Standard Gauge locos are both Ives: the 3243 NYC S-motor and the 1132 steamer.

My dreams are, of course, bigger than my current wallet, alas.

[Anonymous]

Hey Ya'll

I have become interested in asking people what their favourite railroads, train, or locomotive is.

Mine is the Humble Sotuhern Railway Mikado 4501.

Nick